Food Reasons

Instructions: create or pick one or more of these reasons that have personal meaning. Write them down in a list, and make several copies if useful. Post the lists as reminders for why you care about what you buy, grow, prepare, or eat.

I take food seriously because it can:

Promote or interfere with

Feeling energetic and alive

Looking my best

Recovery from workouts or illness

Support or discourage high levels of mental and physical function

Build community through shared growing, selling, preparing, or eating

Impact the quality of air and water in wells, streams, rivers, aquifers, and oceans

Be grown in ways that

Enrich or deplete soils of nutrients

Build or destroy soils

Empower or displace communities (for example native groups in Central and South America)

Contribute to or decrease biodiversity

Promote or discourage respectful treatment of animals

Empower or promote exploitation of people growing, processing, preparing, or serving it